Bed-bottom.



No. 756,744. PATENTED APR. 5, 1904.

T. VIENS.

BED BOTTOM.

UNITED STATES Patented April 5, 1904.'

PATENT OFFICE.

BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,744, dated April 5,1904.

Application filed February 24:, 1903. Serial No. 144,886. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THELESPHORE VIENs, of Minneapolis, county ofHennepin, and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Bed-Bottoms, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for binding the loose ends of theinterwoven wires which constitute a resilient fabric known as awovenwire spring, whereby a number of the said springs may be boxed orbaled, and thus shipped separate and apart from the frames, which framesmay thereby be boxed or bundled, and thus shipped separate and apartfrom the springs, (knockdown) thereby efl' ectinga saving intransportation charges, and when the said separate portions have reachedtheir destination the parts of the said frame may be put together, andthe said bound springs may be affixed thereto, no machinery beingnecessary in the operation and no skilled workman being required in thesetting up thereof.

To these ends my improvement consists in providing a sheet-metal clip orbinder adapted to be underlaid, overlapped, and pressed upon the looseends of the wire springs to form a binder therefor and also to serve asameans for affixing the said bound fabric to the end rails of arectangular frame adapted to serve as a support therefor.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of a woven-wirespring adaptedto the use of my clip or binder; Fig. 2, abroken sectionof a rectangular frame to which the said bound spring is adapted to beaffixed; Fig. 3, a perspective of my sheet-metal clip or binder beforeit is attached; Fig. 4:, a section of a woven-wire spring having one ofmy clips connected therewith, but not affixed thereon; Fig. 5, the sameafter it has been affixed thereto; Fig. 6, a section of the frame andthe wovenwire spring connected by means of one of my clips. Fig. 7 is atransverse vertical section through one of the end rails and clips withthe latter in position engaging the spring.

Similar letters refer to similar parts.

A is the frame, B the woven-wire spring, and C the clip or binder.

The frame A is like those commonly used save and excepting that the endrails a are provided with the longitudinal grooves d, the purpose ofwhich will hereinafter be set forth.

The woven-wire spring B is not unlike those commonly used, forms (ofitself) no part of my invention, and therefore needs no descriptionherein.

The clip 0 consists of a strip of sheet metal as long and about twice aswide as the end rails (a of the frame A. It should be fashioned of softmetal that is to say, metal which has little or no resiliencyto the endthat when folded over the loose ends of the wires which unitedly formthe spring B it will remain connected therewith. Its construction andapplication is as follows: The sheet of metal being cut to the sizehereinbefore given, I bend it longitudinally intermediate its width,thereby forming the bifold clip shown in Fig. 3, one leaf, 0, of whichis adapted to underlap and the other leaf, 0, of which is adapted tooverlap the end portions of the woven wires constituting the spring, andthereby (when pressed together) to form a binding therefor. I then crimpor corrugate the bound ends of the spring, as shown in Fig. 5,impressing or rolling in the indentation d, thereby firmly affixing theclip to the spring. The springs B are now in condition to be boxed orbaled for shipment, as above specified.

When the parts constituting the frames A (the side and end rails) andthe springs B have reached their destination, the said rails may beconnected together to form the frames by properly disposing the partsand connecting them by means of the bolts 0, thus constructing therectangular frame A, when the spring B may be afliXed thereto, soadjusting it that the crimp or indentation (i will rest within thegrooves b in the end rails a, when the two parts may be united bydriving nails f through the clip C and into the said end rails 61., theinterlocking 0f the underlying longitudinal bead (Z (the corrugation) ofthe clip with the longitudinal groove 6 of the end rail (0 serving (withthe nails f) to firmly unite the parts.

Having thus described my invention and set forth its advantages, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with the frame embodying side and end rails, said endrails having cen- IQ the other of which overlaps the end of the spring,said leaves adapted to have a portion thereof throughout their lengthdepressed into the groove of the end rail, and securing means passedthrough said leaves and into the end rail, substantially as described.

THELESPHORE VIENS.-

Witnesses:

F. W. CoUsE, S. M. DICKEY.

